It was no wonder Qiu Jie True Lord was so surprised. The Talisman Dao, Formation Dao, and Alchemy Dao could actually play major roles in battle and were quite useful in daily life as well. It was just that... fewer and fewer people were proficient in them.
But the truth was not quite as exaggerated as he had made it sound. They had not been lost; rather, nobody had studied them, and systematic inheritances had faded away.
Feng Jun saw this quite clearly. Smiling, he said, "Heavenly Zither has developed to this point, and cultivators' fields of specialization have become increasingly refined. That is a good thing, but placing emphasis solely on specialization is somewhat biased... There should still be some generalists."
"Generalists?" Qiu Jie True Lord froze briefly, then shook his head helplessly. "Where would anyone find that much time? There were quite a few versatile great cultivators in ancient times, but heavenly materials and earthly treasures were plentiful then, and there were not as many auxiliary methods as there are now. They had time to learn."
"Exactly. Those were the hundred arts of cultivation... not merely the Eighteen Daos," a True Lord from the Eighteen Daos sighed. "People say cultivators have plenty of time, but no matter how much time they have, they cannot possibly master a hundred arts."
"When have cultivators ever had plenty of time?" The invisible Zixian True Lord could not hold back. He had felt that he might be running out of time, which was why he had attempted to break through to the Body Integration Stage without waiting for the "most suitable" moment, only to fail in the end.
As for what standard defined this "most suitable moment," or whether it would ever appear at all, that remained a mystery. Advancing from Spirit